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FISHING ROD.

No. 395,931. Patented Jan. 8-, 1889.

m N s E k N iii PE 8 H W UNITED STATES PATENT EETcE.

CHARLES S. TREADIVAY, OF BRISTOL, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE HORTON MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

FISHING-ROD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 395,931, dated January 8, 1889.

Application filed October 8, 1888. Serial No. 287,495. (Model) To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, CHARLES S. TREADWAY, of Bristol, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Fishing-Rods; and I do hereby declare'the following, when taken in connection with accompanyin drawings and the' letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same,

to and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in

Figure 1, a longitudinal section. showing two joints of a rod embodying this invention; Fig. 9, a longitudinal section of a single section of the rod detached.

This invention relates to an improvement in that class of fishing-rods which are made in several sect-ions, each section composed of a ta 'iering metal tube, such a rod being fully described in Letters Patent of the United States granted. to Everett llorton, No. 359,153, March 8,-1SS7, this invention being an improvement upon that rod.

In the Horton invention the rod is made of 2 5 a telescopic character, each section from the butt constructed so as to slide into the next section toward the butt and so that all may be iuclosed within the butt. Then to extend the rod the sections are respectively drawn out and each section comes to a bearing in the smaller end of the next section toward the butt, so as to make a 'Iirm tubular rod and so that the line may run through the rod. It often desirable that the sections should be 3 5 separable, sul'Jstantially as sectional rods were commonly made prior to the patent before referred to, but yet retain the same tubular character as that of the telescopic rod re- :ferred to.

40 The object of my invention is to produce such a rod; and it consists in constructing the rod of several tubular sections, each section gradually tapering, but at both ends made of cylindrical shape, the diameter of the cylin- 4 5 drical portions of the respective sections corresponding to the next adjacent sections, and so that the cylindrical portion of one section at one end maybe set into the cylindrical portion of the end of the next adjacent section,

5 o as more fully hereinafter described.

A represents the butt section, B the next or second sect-ion, and C the third section, the illustration of the three sections being sufficient for the understanding of the invention. Each section is made from elastic sheet metal, 5 5 preferably thin sheet-steel, rolled into tubular form, the edges brought together and secured or not, as may be desirable; or the tube may be otherwise formed, the construction of the tube itself as a tube constituting no part of my present invention, it being sufficient to say that the tube may be made in the same manner as described in the Horton patent, before referred to.

The sections taper so that the rod gradually diminishes in diameter toward the tip; but instead of being made tapering throughout, as in the I-Iorton patent, before referred to, the butt-ends of the sections are made cylindrical,

at D, Fig. 2, and the tip-end is also made cylindrical, as represented at E, Fig. 2, the intermediate or body portion of the section tapering, so that the cylindrical portion E is of smaller diameter than the cylindrical portion D. The diameter of the cylindrical portion. D is made to correspond with the cylindrical portion of the tip-end of the nextsectionsay as F, Fig. 1and, preferably, so that the butt-end of each section may set into the tip-end of the next section toward the butt, the diameters of the corresponding sections being such as to produce sufficient friction between the two to hold them together; but to prevent the one section being forced rearward into the next section toward the butt a band or collar, (1, is formed on the section at the termination of the cylindrical portion, as seen in Fig. 2, which forms a shoulder to come to a stop against the end of the section into which that section is inserted. The other 0 end of the respective sections, as E, Fig. 2, is of corresponding cylindrical shape to fit or receive the corresponding end of the next section, as the case may be. Preferably a band,

Z), is placed around the end of the cylindrical portion, which is to receive within it the corresponding cylindrical portion of the next section, as represented. This band serves as a hoop around the end to prevent the possible splitting, or of the separation if the edges of I00 ,he metal are not united. These hands or collars maybe provided with loops or rings, as (I, through which the line may run outside the rod; hut as the rod is tubular theline may run through the inside of the red, as in the llorton patent, it IllPfOll'Ctl.

The joint portions may taper slightl y toward the butt; hut they should he snhstantially cylindrical.

By n1 y invention the respective sections are constructed to he SOPiU'i'lbiO from each other, as in the usual sectional rods; hut the joint portions of each of the respective sections are made integral with the section itsell.

l. The herein-d eserihed fish ing-rod, consisting of several sections made from tulnllar metal, the sections taperin except at the hutt and tip portions, which said butt and tip por tions 01: the respective sections are substantially cylindrical and integrz'il with said tapering [)Uli'ltlllfs, the lnittwnd oi one section corresponding to the tip-end olf the next section at the rear, and so that the cylindrical portion of one may be set into the correspmnling eylindrieal portion of the other, substantially as (lOSUl'iilQd, and whereby the joint portions ol? each section aremade i ntee'ral therewith and. the several sections separahle.

2. A tnhnlar metallic tishing-roi'l made in several sections, the body of each section tapering from the butttoward the tip, the butt and tip ends of each section made cylindrical and corresponding" in diameter to the butt or tip end of the adjacent sections, as the case may he, andso that the adjacent end. of one section may he set into the eorrespmlding end of the next section, the said sections n-ovided "with a stationary hand or collar at the junction of the cylindrical. tapering portions, substantially as and for the purpose described.

\Vitnesses:

JOHN J. .lnXNTXus, llENnY STRUNZ. 

